Values Totem
What core values drive your team’s performance, and how are they reflected in everyday behaviors? Strengthening these values encourages creative thinking, stronger collaboration, and consistent actions aligned with your team’s goals.
What you'll do
Taking inspiration from totems, revered by ancient tribes for their gods, our team-building activity mirrors this hierarchical reverence. Teams rotate through activities focusing on individual and collective behaviors linked to corporate values. Each team of 8-12 members pieces together these behaviors to complete their value patchwork.
Ultimately, teams present their findings to the "tribe's leader" who awards them with a plaque representing the corresponding value. What's intriguing and revealing is the subsequent discussion: teams collectively decide where each value plaque should be positioned—lower, middle, or top—reflecting its importance in the corporate hierarchy.
Business benefits
- Culture Clarity: Translates values from words into daily behaviors.
- Alignment: Builds shared norms and decision criteria across the team.
- Trust & Belonging: Reinforces identity and cohesion, supporting retention.
- Communication: Creates a common language for feedback and collaboration.
- Engagement: People connect to purpose and feel part of something meaningful.
